Improved washing-machine



"UNITED STATES PATENT Ormea.

ABRAM P. QUAOKENBUSH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,449, dated October8, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAM P. QUACKEN- BUSH, of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Washing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that thefollowingis a full and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, and to the lettersdenotedthereomforming a part of this specification.

The drawing is avertical section through the machine. k

My invention consists in the construction and use of a revolving rubberin the periphery of which fixed cylinders and freely-revolving rollersare distributed, as shown below in combination with a concave composedof freely-revolving rollers.

Toen-able others skilled inthe art to make and use ,my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation by the aid of thedrawing.

The tub or fixed portion of the machine is composed of two plane headsA, a semi-cylin drical concave base with nearly perpendicular sides a,and suitable supporting-legs.

B is a shaft mounted in the heads A, and provided with a crank on one ofits overhanging ends for turning it. This shaft is mounted in slots inA, as shown by the dotted lines, and is carried in slides (notrepresented) sothat it is free to rise and sink without allowing theescape of much water. Just within a are mounted freelyrevolving` rollersD, each roller extending the whole distance from one of the heads A tothe`other.

On the shaft B is fixed a pair of wheels C, just within each head A.These wheels are of equal size and of a diameter proportioned to d andto the series of rollers D, as represented. Iiour cylinders c c c c,proportioned and located as indicated, are firmly fixed one end to oneof the wheels C and the other end to the similar wheel Con the-othersideofthe machine. These cylinders thus extend across the interior of theentire machine and revolve with B, but do not revolve on their own axes,being xed rigidly to C. It Will be observed that their extreme outersides protrude beyond the periphery of C, as represented.

E E, dac., are rollers mounted in C, each equal in diameter to c, andprotruding to an equal extent therewith, but free to revolve each on itsown axis. There are two of these freely-revolving rollers E foreacliiixed roller c.

In operating my machine the clothes and water are placed in the machineand the shaft- B turned by hand to tumble and wash them. The clothes aresimply compressed by each passage of a loose rollerE, butare compressedand also turned or changed in position by each passage of a similarcylinder c.

My machine attains a high degree of perfection in the result and greatrapidity in its operation and involves but a small cost, bulk,

and weight of machine.

I am aware that revolving wheels and roll-- ers have been used before inmany varieties of washing-machines, and that many patented arrangementshave produced some of the effects produced by mine; but the necessarycost ot' some has limited their usefulness while the bul-k and weight ofothers have been objectionable, and I am not aware that any have beenequal to mine in fulfilling the many conditions required in theseimportant machines.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and use in washing-machines of a rubber or wheel havingfixed cylinders c, equal in size and in distance from the center totherollers E, and alternating with the latter or with pairs or tripletsthereof, as shown, in combination with" rollers D, so mounted as to forma concave, for the' purpose hereinabove set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

its ABRAM P. iK QUACKENBUSH.

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- Vtnesses:

THOMAS D. STETsoN, D. W. STETsoN.

